This lecture traces the history of raves, illegal parties and protests in its percolation through independent media (video, pirate radio, flyers, record labels, zines, small press). It considers the 'personal' discoveries and employment history of a suburban self subject to differing articulations of radicality in interrelated cultural and political milieus of the time. The talk concludes with some reflections on the sedimentation of this history in contemporary media and political culture....

The title of the readerFaculty of De-programming for Obsolescence! Welcome!

(.pdf of the reader could be downloaded at this page)

The reader is made within and after the (anti-) conference Faculty of De-programming for Obsolescence! Welcome!, which was held on February 27&28th 2014, in the Youth Center CK13 in Novi Sad, in production and organization by kuda.org.

Editors of the reader and of the conference: Howard Slater & kuda.org

Content of the reader:You too can be a leftist activist!, 2nd part: Leftist conferences and summer schools, Group for Orgonetherapy by Communism‘Sitting In’- from Autodidacticism to Unconsciousness Raising, Howard SlaterAntiuniversity of London – An Introduction to Deinstitutionalisation, Jakob JakobsenThe Case of Thwarted (Doctoral) Work, Nikoleta MarkovićA Place for Competence, Petar AtanackovićDietzgen’s Monism Enters the Twentieth Century, Fabian TompsettTo Make It Happen – Communicating With the Invisible, Kasper OpstrupAnti-historicism of Anti-/-Free University, Branka ĆurčićA Feast in February, 1971/2014, Zoran Gajić

Image: Character mask of capital? Egypt's new president el-Sisi embodies the identity of capital and army

While much analysis has emphasised the flexible, precarious and improvisatory subjectivities of neoliberal ‘post-fordist’ society, the post-crunch period demonstrates that militarism, graft, and un-free labour are just as crucial for contemporary accumulation. In a detailed analysis of the role of the army in the Egyptian economy, L.S. reveals a state with a vast military-industrial complex based as much on private-public partnerships and a flexibly industrial army of capital as on a growing reserve army of labour (by Mute eds.).